Maharashtra's Public Works Department Building to get Energy Efficiency Improvement

THE Indian State-run Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) is to invest around Rs 200 crore to improve the energy efficiency of 1,500 buildings of the Public Works Department of the Maharashtra government.

Recently, Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, announced that EESL will invest 100 million pound in the UK over the next three years to extend its affordable lighting scheme there.

EESL, a joint venture of NTPC, Power Finance Corporation, Rural Electrification Corporation and PowerGrid, was set up under Ministry of Power to facilitate implementation of energy efficiency projects.